HOUSEHOLD PESTS

Community Relations: The Heart of Our Work

NPMA exists to positively impact the businesses and livelihoods
of those in the pest management community each and every day. Find
pest management community relations information from PestWorld and
the NPMA below.

NPMA Gives

Pest
management professionals improve lives each and every day as they
protect people, property, and our nation's food supply from pests.
That same spirit of service and compassion drives many industry
businesses to give back to the communities they serve. To recognize
those who support their local and global communities through
stewardship and voluntarism, the National Pest Management
Association created NPMA Gives, a recognition program for those in
the professional pest management industry who go above and beyond
in support of those around them. Each company participating in the
NPMA Gives program has voluntarily committed to contribute no less
than one percent of their net profit to their communities.

Pest Management Pledge

One example of the industry's commitment to global
service can be seen in its multi-year efforts in Haiti. On January
12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the Haitian capital
of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas, killing an estimated
230,000 people injuring another 300,000 and rendering more than a
million homeless. Shortly after the earthquake, the National Pest
Management Association (NPMA) offered its assistance to the Haitian
government.

On May 5, 2010, the first NPMA delegation traveled to Haiti to assess
the current pest issues and infestation risk factors. Medical
facilities in Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas were
experiencing severe infestations of flies, rodents and cockroaches.
The NPMA delegation realized that the hospital staff was barely
equipped to save the lives of their patients, much less to deal
with the pests that were spreading disease and bacteria. As a
result of this first eye-opening, heart-wrenching visit to Haiti,
the Pest Management Pledge was born.

Over the next couple of visits, NPMA
delegates and their Haitian pest control counterparts worked to
install more than 500 screens to protect hospital patients from
disease-carrying flies and mosquitoes in areas such as delivery
rooms, neonatal care areas, as well as emergency and operating
rooms. In addition, teams also installed 500 rat bait stations and
more than 200 fly bait stations at three hospitals and one
orphanage in the capital city.

NPMA wrapped up its mission to Haiti with a fourth and final humanitarian delegation in July
of 2011. Over the course of a year, NPMA used its resources to
minimize entry points for pests, purchase products designed to
prevent pest infestations in buildings, and to train Haitian pest
control workers so they can properly perform pest control
operations as the country continues its recovery.